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"Princess Metternich must have taught you wrong, Carisbrooke," said Hugo Bohun. They ended with a waltz, Lothair dancing with Miss Arundel. She accepted his offer to take some tea on its conclusion.
The invitation was cordially responded to, and when, after sundry repetitions of the "ripping" piece, the eldest Miss Marigold offered to play a waltz, and after her Miss Shafto relieved duty with a polka, and after her one of the ardent youths actually condescended to perform a set of quadrilles, in which His Grace the Duke, with Jill as his partner, led off vis-a-vis with the Bishop and the sister of the member for the county, there was no room to doubt the glorious success of Miss Oliphant's party.
The music began again a waltz and, still as a statue in the recess of the window, his face unmoved, but no smile on his lips, Soames waited. Presently, within a yard of the dark balcony, his wife and Bosinney passed. He caught the perfume of the gardenias that she wore, saw the rise and fall of her bosom, the languor in her eyes, her parted lips, and a look on her face that he did not know.
Here and there a ring is formed, carved out, as it were, from the solid mass of human beings, in which some half dozen couples are revolving more or less in time to the braying of a bagpipe or scraping of a fiddle, executing something which has more or less semblance to a waltz. The mode in which these rings are formed is at once simple and efficacious.
"They exchanged partners with another Quakerish looking couple, and have been in the heat of the fight, ever since," said gay Mrs. Wingfield. "'Merrily danced the Quaker's wife, merrily danced the Quaker," sang Vaura. Here a Spanish noble came up, and with a courtly bow, reminded Vaura that this was his waltz, and in animated chit-chat, they left the room. "A handsome couple," said Mrs.
She seemed to have set her heart on marrons, though how she knew that such things existed passes imagination." "I hope you'll find them, I'm sure." "Oh, thank you," said the Severe Arraigner, quite gratefully, it seemed.... Through the open door of the pleasant little room, there floated in the continual murmur of voices and the sighing refrain of the waltz.
Colonel Fortescue himself, by way of setting an example, would do a sedate waltz with some matron of the post, or select a rosebud girl for a solemn set of lancers quadrilles. Mrs. Fortescue still held the palm as the prettiest waltzer at the post, none the less gay for being dignified.
Equally young and attractive, they were talking in undertones, confining their words within the narrow circle of the waltz. "You lie!" said Sidonie, slightly pale, but with the same little smile. And the other, paler than she, replied: "I do not lie. It was my uncle who insisted upon this marriage. He was dying you had gone away. I dared not say no."
King, reckless with the wine of her, demanded the next waltz, claiming that this had been only half a dance, and she gave it to him laughingly, the more pleased that she saw Broderick coming toward her and that this was the second time tonight that he had been a little too late, and that she saw a frown in his eyes as they followed her and King out upon the floor.
Then, as the band began the first bars of a second waltz, he hurried back into the crowded room in time to forestall Stafford at Lois' side. Nehal Singh's servants stood with the horses outside Travers' compound and waited. Their master did not disturb them.
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